Business / Jet airways is now smallest operating pan-Indian airline

The Economics Times : Apr 03, 2019, 10:18 AM
Jet Airways’ domestic operations now comprise just 12-15 planes, making it the smallest operating pan-Indian carrier & also, according to industry experts, ineligible to fly on international routes. It has in several similar piecemeal announcements since January 2019 announced the grounding of close to 55 planes. Directorate General of Civil Aviation that it has a plan to have 75 planes operating by the end of April.

In a communication to the Bombay Stock Exchange Tuesday, the airline said it grounded 15 more planes, but didn't give the current fleet size. It has in several similar piecemeal announcements since January 2019 announced the grounding of close to 55 planes. It has told regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation that it has a plan to have 75 planes operating by the end of April. 

Data sourced from real-time air-traffic-tracking application Flightradar24 over the past one week have sh .. 

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